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Ion
Ion addresses the problem of navigating between windows by dividing the screen into frames that take up the whole screen and never overlap. Big displays have so much space that this should be convenient and smaller displays couldn't show more than one window at a time anyway. The frame layout is dynamic and different on each workspace.
Given the tree instead of coordinate-based frame layout, moving between the frames can be conveniently done from the keyboard. As in PWM, the frames may have multiple clients attached. The author notes that programs with more than one window per document may become practically unusable under Ion. Terminal programs should work better than before, however.
Other features include a general purpose line editor (called minibuffer in many text editors) and tab-completion in certain queries. Ion also has support for extensions (that are not wanted in the core source) as loadable modules.
Last updated 16 May, 2005
About
Leadership
- Tuomo Valkonen - Maintainer
Requirements
- GNU make (Build Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Versions
"20050502
"20050502 (Ion3)" devel released 2005-05-02
- Released: 29 Jul, 2004
- Code Maturity: Stable
20040729
20040729 stable released 2004-07-29
- Released: 29 Jul, 2004
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/dl/ion-2-20040729...
- Licenses: ClarifiedArtistic
- Interfaces: X Window System
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User FAQ available in HTML format from http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/faq.html
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